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Re: Find a person's profile across 350 social media sites

#111

Forgive me for being so dumb despite being on this website for so long. How do I download and install this program from github (macbook, no dev tools or terminal or anything on my computer)?

1. Install docker desktop

2. Download the zip file from the repo and unzip

3. Open a terminal windows and cd to the folder containing the README

4. Type docker-compose up

(Not tested. Just based on what's in the repo.)

Re: Find a person's profile across 350 social media sites

#112
post #38

Earlier quoted context omitted.

And yet, here you are.

...because any site with a discussion thread is social media. IRC and usenet are social media. maybe email is social media?

Yea. Some mailing lists are a form of social media. Many of them are public.

IRC and twitch would be too.

Re: Find a person's profile across 350 social media sites

#113

You know how sometimes people ask on HN ‘how can I use software to make world better?’, well, you just asked the opposite question. Don’t make shit like this. I could do it too, but I’m not gonna.

I'm sure politely asking people not to do something that benefits them will surely work.

Re: Find a person's profile across 350 social media sites

#114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You know what would be a great addition to this tool: A transparency panel/dashboard that shows any state organizations or LEO systems that are using it. List out all the IPs and countries that are state IPs using it.

The tool is running locally, how are you going to collect the IPs?

I was thinking a modification such that the system will report where its run from and if the reported IP is recognized as a government agency, display it - else drop it.

Re: Find a person's profile across 350 social media sites

#115

It is projects like this makes people dont' want to be on any public social media. It is creepy.

Creepy like watching open heart surgery?

no, it's creepy like finding people that are scheduled for open heart surgery

Re: Find a person's profile across 350 social media sites

#116
Regarding the criticism: How is it different from any pentesting tool, portscanner, meta search engine, shodan.io (which you could use to try to find unprotected babycams and whatnot), et cetera, on principle? I know it's creepy, but obviously this is portraying a serious and widespread flaw in how we treat privacy on the net, and for that flaw to be fixed, proclaiming the tool as evil doesn't do it, and actually is counter productive?

Re: Find a person's profile across 350 social media sites

#117
post #75

I'm so sick of morons open sourcing abuse tools under the guise of "helping". This tool will be misused to abuse and harass more than anything else. Making these tools available to masses is dangerous.

What are "abuse tools"? Trying to suppress knowledge is never the answer. That would mean that only those in the know can either protect themselves or exploit others. The "never put information about yourself on the internet" mantra from before social media needs a comeback and it will not happen if no one shines a light on how easy it is to track people online.

There are other technological fields in which capable tech has been kept out of commonly available products in order to prevent people from abusing it.

For whatever reason, techies that are in the information discovery space can't help themselves from showing off how clever they are despite there being very real security risks to random bystanders.

Re: Find a person's profile across 350 social media sites

#118

Forgive me for being so dumb despite being on this website for so long. How do I download and install this program from github (macbook, no dev tools or terminal or anything on my computer)?

1. Install docker desktop 2. Download the zip file from the repo and unzip 3. Open a terminal windows and cd to the folder containing the README 4. Type docker-compose up (Not tested. Just based on what's in the repo.)

Thank you

Re: Find a person's profile across 350 social media sites

#119
post #7

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wait until you find out how HackerNews harvests your data, uses services that use data lakes of bulk collection to confirm your identity, and sell what you generate without your permission.

I'm still waiting to find out about that. Maybe you'd be kind enough to elaborate.

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https://www.ycombinator.com/legal/

Re: Find a person's profile across 350 social media sites

#120
post #2

I’m not a fan. Kinda creepy.

It can get much creepier. It's possible to reverse image search a person's profile picture from one site to find out where else they have profiles - given that they reuse their profile picture - which many do.
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